Imagine That You Are Writing a Paper and Are Entering

question 40

Multiple Choice

Imagine that you are writing a paper and are entering all your references into your bibliography manually. You complete that paper and begin a new one. You start to enter all your references manually again, even though your friend just told you about a great program that does all of that for you and allows you to reformat things within seconds. However, you insist on continuing with your old ways. This example illustrates ______.

• A) functional fixedness
• B) selective encoding
• C) analogical transfer
• D) a mental set

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